Everything New Fairfield I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” New Fairfield CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. … [Read more...]
Pootatuck State Forest Intro
Pootatuck State Forest New Fairfield Pootatuck might be the most fun name to say of any of Connecticut's state forests or parks. Pootatuck. Pooty-pooty Pootatuck. Of course Pootatuck comes from a Native American tribe that used to live in the area before they were mostly wiped out and then absorbed by other … [Read more...]
New Fairfield’s Town Trails
New Fairfield's Town Trails New Fairfield is not very much like Fairfield at all. While both are in Fairfield County, Fairfield is a town with a commercial area and a couple universities and an identity. New Fairfield is a farming community that always votes Republican and doesn't have all that much going on - which … [Read more...]
Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Trails
Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Brookfield, Danbury, Kent, Litchfield, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Sharon, & Sherman Up until 2020, there existed a bunch of land trusts in northwest Connecticut that no longer exist: The New Fairfield Land Trust, The Land Trust of Danbury, The Brookfield Land Trust, … [Read more...]
Eversource Land Trust
Eversource Land Trust Brooklyn, East Granby, Enfield, Granby, Middletown, New Fairfield, Waterford, Windsor Locks, Surprising, isn’t it? We don’t really think of a giant utility as something that would create and manage a land trust. But here we are. And I’m here because of King’s Island; an oblong piece of … [Read more...]
TSTL’16.9: Squantz Pond State Park
The Sky's the Limit 2016 Hiking Challenge #9 Pootatuck State Forest/Squantz Pond State Park, New Fairfield August 30, 2016 I know the title here is Squantz Pond, but 99% of this hike was not in the state park but rather in the Pootatuck State Forest. “Squantz.” Go ahead. Say that word a few times in your … [Read more...]